mental and substance abuse illnesses have often been identified as vulnerable populations. The following essay discusses the physical‚ psychological‚ and social factors that predispose these individuals to vulnerability. In regards to health care‚ potential disparities are then identified based on the theoretical components of Aday’s framework regarding access‚ cost and quality of care. Historically speaking‚ mental and substance abuse illnesses were considered “a social rather than a medical
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Health Disparities in HIV/AIDS Human immunodeficiency Virus also known as HIV is a sexually transmitted disease. It attacks your body’s immune system. The virus destroys CD4 cells‚ which help your body fight diseases. HIV damages your immune system and it leads to acquired immune deficiency syndrome also known as AIDS. AIDS is the final stage in HIV‚ and it’s a disease where severe loss of the body’s cellular immunity occurs. The disease lowers the resistance to infection and malignancy. Anyone
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People often take the glories of modern medicine for granted‚ particularly those in the United States privileged enough to have health insurance. But though we have the technology and proper medicines‚ there are still large groups of people who do not benefit from them. A health disparity is “a statistically significant difference in health indicators that persists over time” (Holtz‚ 2013‚ p.10). While humankind has achieved many scientific advances‚ adequately sharing them with the whole population
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Advocating for Health and Education Name: Institution: Course: Tutor: Date: Advocating for Health and Education Health education is a profession that strives to promote and see the success of family‚ individual‚ community and organizational health. In order to ensure that it is successful‚ health education must follow the Health Code of Ethics which provides the foundation of shared values for its practice (NCHEC‚ 2008). Some of these values articulated in the Health Code of Ethics
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Also‚ the issue of health inequalities has deprived a lot people from basic health care and human right. Most time whenever I think of human right and health care‚ the question that comes to mind is‚ is health care is a human right? Yes‚ everybody supposed to have equal access or opportunities to health irrespective any factor hindering them. For Williams‚ who is going through COPD exacerbation‚ retired have
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The issue discussed in this paper is Italy’s disparity in access to health care between northern and southern regions in Italy. There is a disparity between both regions which leads to a lower quality of care received in southern regions in Italy‚ thus leading to an impact in access to health care in southern regions in Italy. The purpose is to explain how access to health care has an impact on health in different regions in Italy‚ how this issue is compared to the United States (U.S.)‚ ethical
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NUR 2075 = Diversity in Health Care (3 credits): Focuses on variety of cultures‚ ethics and beliefs within the health care field. Students will learn the benefits of cultural sensitive and adapting to differences of others. Students will learn meaning of egocentricity and how it may affect one’s day to day operations. Rationale: Health care settings today tend to patients with various cultures‚ races and religions aspects. Students will benefit from recognizing differences and diversity that patient
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[1] Give an overview of the meaning of continuing competence and its impact on OT practice. (10 points) Continuing competence is a process that involves examination of current competence‚ and the development of occupational therapy practitioners for the future (American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)‚ 2010). The ongoing professional development uses a dynamic‚ multidimensional process to maintain standards in knowledge‚ critical reasoning‚ interpersonal abilities‚ performance skills
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Control and Prevention‚ Health disparities are preventable differences in the burden of disease‚ injury‚ violence‚ or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations. Health disparities are inequitable and are directly related to the historical and current unequal distribution of social‚ political‚ economic‚ and environmental resources (Health Disparities‚ 2015). There are multiple factors that contribute to health disparities such as‚ poverty‚ inadequate
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Health disparity is the health outcome of between different populations. Health is put on a scale of either good or bad between populations. For example‚ people of different race‚ sex‚ age and so on (Healthy People 2020‚ n.d.). Healthy disparity is a health difference in people due to disadvantages of where people live‚ how much money they make and discrimination. 2.Which racial/ethnic groups are more likely to be affected by health disparities? Why? Many studies have shown that African Americans
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